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About John Bramston (priest)
- The Very Reverend John Bramston (12 May 1802 – 13 November 1889) was Dean of Winchester (1872–1883). He was the younger son of Thomas Gardiner Bramston, who owned Skreens estate in Roxwell, Essex and was a member of Parliament for Essex, and the younger brother of Thomas William Bramston, who inherited Skreens and was an MP for South Essex.
- He was also a descendant of his namesakes Sir John Bramston, the elder and the latter's son Sir John Bramston, the younger.He went to Oriel College, Oxford and graduated with a B.A.
- in 1823.
- He became vicar of Great Baddow, Essex in 1831 and vicar of Witham in 1840.
- He became Dean of Winchester in October 1872 and resigned the post in 1883.He married the diarist Clarissa Sandford Trant (daughter of the soldier Nicholas Trant) in 1832; she died in 1844, leaving three children: Clara Isabella Sandford Bramston (b.
- 1833), Mary Eliza Bramston (b.
- 1841), and Rev.
- John Trant Bramston (b.
- 1843).
- In 1846, he married Anna, daughter of Osgood Hanbury, of Holfield Grange, Essex.
- His daughter by his second marriage, Anna, founded Winchester High School, now known as St Swithun's School.
- Granddaughter Clara Georgina Luard published a selection from Clarissa Trant's twenty-eight volume journal in 1925.
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